Journal rankings · indicator year 2016
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Subfield ranking · 2016
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis journal rankings 2016
76 ranked journals · Subfield in Environmental Science
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis has 76 ranked journals in 2016. The median OJR fell 0.06 on 2015 to 1.36, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.11. The top three are Journal of Environmental Psychology, Environment International, and Environment and Behavior.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2016. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 2013–2015, the window the 2016 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Environmental Science (11)
76 ranked journals
Filters
Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 2015. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2013–2015, the window the 2016 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2013–2015 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2007 to 2016. | Compare |
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1Journal of Environmental PsychologyElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 6.69Q1 | 5.28 0.44 up from 2015 | 242 | 29% | $4,380 | ||
2Environment InternationalOAElsevier BV · United States | 4.59Q1 | 8.39 1.29 up from 2015 | 692 | 42% | $4,750 | ||
3Environment and BehaviorSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.27Q1 | 3.34 0.98 up from 2015 | 121 | 37% | $3,900 | ||
4Particle and Fibre ToxicologyOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 4.15Q1 | 7.76 3.79 down from 2015 | 225 | 100% | $4,090 | ||
5Environmental Health PerspectivesOANational Institute of Environmental Health Sciences · United States | 4.10Q1 | 7.75 0.30 up from 2015 | 941 | 100% | $4,500 | ||
6Landscape and Urban PlanningElsevier BV · Netherlands | 3.64Q1 | 5.90 0.94 up from 2015 | 508 | 37% | $3,120 | ||
7Environmental Science & TechnologyAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.58Q1 | 6.94 0.27 up from 2015 | 5,040 | 30% | $4,500 | ||
8International Journal of EpidemiologyOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 3.55Q1 | 6.68 0.65 up from 2015 | 623 | 76% | $4,514 | ||
9Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health Part BTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.54Q1 | 7.11 0.44 down from 2015 | 41 | 38% | — | ||
10Environmental Science & Technology LettersAmerican Chemical Society · United States | 3.50Q1 | 5.55 1.08 down from 2015 | 172 | 37% | $4,500 | ||
11Environmental HealthOABioMed Central · United Kingdom | 3.28Q1 | 5.53 0.50 up from 2015 | 335 | 100% | $3,490 | ||
12International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental HealthElsevier BV · Germany | 3.06Q1 | 5.31 0.50 up from 2015 | 257 | 35% | $3,800 | ||
13Health & PlaceElsevier BV · United Kingdom | 3.00Q1 | 3.42 0.37 down from 2015 | 397 | 53% | $3,380 | ||
14Environmental ResearchElsevier BV · United States | 2.83Q1 | 4.88 0.88 up from 2015 | 873 | 38% | $3,880 | ||
15Critical Reviews in ToxicologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.61Q1 | 5.68 0.73 down from 2015 | 129 | 62% | — | ||
16Ecotoxicology and Environmental SafetyOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 2.27Q1 | 4.21 0.35 up from 2015 | 1,320 | 16% | $3,650 | ||
17Indoor AirWiley · Denmark | 2.18Q1 | 3.37 0.24 down from 2015 | 242 | 67% | $2,490 | ||
18Toxicological SciencesOxford University Press · United States | 2.11Q1 | 4.40 0.14 up from 2015 | 842 | 58% | $4,671 | ||
19Journal of Environmental Science and Health Part CTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.11Q1 | 5.26 0.97 up from 2015 | 44 | 14% | — | ||
20Current Environmental Health ReportsSpringer Science+Business Media · Switzerland | 2.06Q2 | 5.83 0.63 up from 2015 | 72 | 39% | $3,990 | ||
21Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental EpidemiologySpringer Nature · United States | 1.95Q2 | 2.91 0.32 down from 2015 | 283 | 54% | $5,490 | ||
22ToxicologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.83Q2 | 4.05 0.25 down from 2015 | 474 | 30% | $4,250 | ||
23Urban forestry & urban greeningElsevier BV · Germany | 1.78Q2 | 2.91 0.11 down from 2015 | 318 | 27% | $3,870 | ||
24Journal of Applied ToxicologyWiley · United Kingdom | 1.68Q2 | 3.28 0.25 down from 2015 | 422 | 29% | $3,940 | ||
25Environmental Science Processes & ImpactsRoyal Society of Chemistry · United Kingdom | 1.62Q2 | 3.06 0.36 up from 2015 | 683 | 21% | — | ||
26Toxicology LettersElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.60Q2 | 3.39 0.13 down from 2015 | 1,051 | 6% | $4,270 | ||
27Toxicological ResearchSpringer Science+Business Media · South Korea | 1.55Q2 | 3.84 1.35 up from 2015 | 125 | 98% | $3,090 | ||
28NeuroToxicologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.52Q2 | 3.49 0.13 down from 2015 | 399 | 38% | $4,030 | ||
29Environmental Toxicology and ChemistryWiley · United States | 1.52Q2 | 2.68 0.42 down from 2015 | 1,180 | 34% | $3,500 | ||
30Archives of Environmental Contamination and ToxicologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.52Q2 | 2.56 0.23 up from 2015 | 386 | 19% | $3,990 | ||
31Journal of Environmental SciencesElsevier BV · China | 1.51Q2 | 3.02 0.39 up from 2015 | 1,095 | 16% | $3,000 | ||
32Environmental Toxicology and PharmacologyElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.45Q2 | 2.87 0.22 up from 2015 | 748 | 7% | $3,540 | ||
33Air Quality Atmosphere & HealthSpringer Science+Business Media · Netherlands | 1.41Q2 | 2.56 0.13 down from 2015 | 182 | 25% | $3,590 | ||
34Reproductive ToxicologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.41Q2 | 2.24 0.98 down from 2015 | 501 | 22% | $3,800 | ||
35EcotoxicologySpringer Science+Business Media · United States | 1.41Q2 | 2.32 0.22 down from 2015 | 547 | 20% | $3,990 | ||
36Reviews on Environmental HealthDe Gruyter · Germany | 1.40Q2 | 2.19 0.15 down from 2015 | 103 | 24% | $2,712 | ||
37Journal of Toxicology and Environmental HealthTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.37Q2 | 3.09 0.28 up from 2015 | 356 | 20% | — | ||
38Endocrine DisruptorsOATaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.36Q2 | 1.57 0.67 down from 2015 | 33 | 100% | — | ||
39Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part C Toxicology & PharmacologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.35Q3 | 2.46 0.28 down from 2015 | 259 | 29% | $3,220 | ||
40Regulatory Toxicology and PharmacologyElsevier BV · United States | 1.33Q3 | 2.83 0.11 up from 2015 | 618 | 27% | $4,210 | ||
41International Journal of BiometeorologySpringer Science+Business Media · Germany | 1.27Q3 | 2.28 0.20 down from 2015 | 493 | 24% | $3,890 | ||
42Aerosol and Air Quality ResearchOATaiwan Association for Aerosol Research · Taiwan | 1.26Q3 | 2.35 0.30 down from 2015 | 702 | 100% | $2,090 | ||
43Interdisciplinary ToxicologyOADe Gruyter Open · Slovakia | 1.15Q3 | 1.69 0.14 up from 2015 | 93 | 100% | — | ||
44Atmospheric Pollution ResearchElsevier BV · Türkiye | 1.15Q3 | 1.99 0.03 down from 2015 | 309 | 37% | $2,570 | ||
45Inhalation ToxicologyTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.12Q3 | 2.09 0.53 down from 2015 | 261 | 35% | — | ||
46Environmental ChemistryCSIRO Publishing · Australia | 1.11Q3 | 2.21 0.31 down from 2015 | 294 | 30% | — | ||
47Journal of the Air & Waste Management AssociationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.08Q3 | 1.80 0.03 down from 2015 | 417 | 95% | — | ||
48Environmental Health and Preventive MedicineOASpringer Science+Business Media · Japan | 1.02Q3 | 1.50 0.20 down from 2015 | 157 | 100% | $2,145 | ||
49Toxicology ReportsOAElsevier BV · Netherlands | 1.01Q3 | 1.91 0.57 up from 2015 | 310 | 100% | $2,530 | ||
50The Annals of Occupational HygieneOxford University Press · United Kingdom | 1.01Q3 | 1.83 0.31 up from 2015 | 297 | 59% | — |
Subfields of Environmental Science, with Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis highlighted.
- Ecology276
- Global and Planetary Change193
- Water Science and Technology95
- Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis76
- Nature and Landscape Conservation62
- Pollution56
- Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law45
- Environmental Engineering42
- Waste Management and Disposal19
- Environmental Chemistry10
- Ecological Modeling5
Journals
Citations made in 2016. Corpus-wide, 77.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
25 additional Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2013–2015, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2016. Publication window: 2013–2015. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 76
- Window papers (baseline)
- 78,996 +14.2% from indicator year 2013
- Median OJR
- 1.36 -4.8% from indicator year 2013
- Rising journals (2025)
- 12
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2013–2015 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
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| Ranked journals | 47 | 50 | 53 | 56 | 59 | 56 | 56 | 56 | 56 | 58 | 64 | 67 | 66 | 68 | 70 | 77 | 76 | 81 | 85 | 87 | 86 | 93 | 97 | 97 | 100 | 100 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 20,373 | 23,298 | 25,727 | 28,666 | 30,953 | 34,676 | 38,303 | 42,209 | 46,770 | 51,378 | 56,797 | 61,162 | 65,841 | 69,179 | 73,239 | 76,971 | 78,996 | 76,273 | 68,010 | 61,690 | 60,549 | 66,381 | 72,951 | 79,491 | 84,111 | 95,214 | |
| Median OJR | 0.71 | 0.87 | 0.95 | 0.88 | 0.94 | 1.17 | 1.189 | 1.30 | 1.38 | 1.52 | 1.46 | 1.48 | 1.42 | 1.43 | 1.44 | 1.41 | 1.36 | 1.190 | 1.07 | 0.999 | 1.05 | 0.997 | 1.04 | 1.057 | 1.063 | 0.98 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.